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The White House was still trying to salvage its legal and political loss over John Bolton’s memoir, but the effort had already become a self-own. The administration’s attempt to block publication was rejected, and the whole spectacle only reinforced the image of a president using federal power to muzzle a critic instead of competing with him on the merits.
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The White House was still trying to salvage its legal and political loss over John Bolton’s memoir, but the effort had already become a self-own. The administration’s attempt to block publication was rejected, and the whole spectacle only reinforced the image of a president using federal power to muzzle a critic instead of competing with him on the merits.
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The White House was still trying to salvage its legal and political loss over John Bolton’s memoir, but the effort had already become a self-own. The administration’s attempt to block publication was rejected, and the whole spectacle only reinforced the image of a president using federal power to muzzle a critic instead of competing with him on the merits.
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